scarifyingly

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English

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Etymology

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From scarifying +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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scarifyingly (comparative more scarifyingly, superlative most scarifyingly)

  1. In a scarifying way.
    • 2007 January 29, Holland Cotter, “Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage”, in New York Times[1]:
      The performance was scarifyingly funny as a send-up of feminism’s much-maligned sexual “essentialism.”